User talk:Brianthomas.m

November 2021
Hello, Brian, and welcome to editing Wikipedia. I am sure your organisation does good work in a very worthwhile cause, but Wikipedia does not serve as a service to help people to contact organisations or as a way for organisations to publicise themselves, so adding your phone number to the article about the organisation is not acceptable. Also, before you do any more editing related to your organisation, you need to be aware of Wikipedia's guideline on "conflict of interest". The full guideline is available from this link, but the essential points are as follows. If you are connected to someone or something you have written about (a few examples are writing about yourself, your business, your band, a member of your family, your client) then you should be aware that Wikipedia's conflict of interest guideline discourages you from writing about that subject. The main reason for that is that experience over the years indicates that editors with such a connection to a subject they are writing about are likely to find it very difficult, or even impossible, to stand back from their writing and see how it will look from the detached perspective of an outsider, so that they are likely to write in ways that look promotional to others, even if they sincerely think they are writing in a neutral way. Also, if your editing forms all or part of work for which you are paid, whether as an employee, as a contractor, or in any other capacity, the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use require you to state who is paying you, and what your connection to them is. (To avoid the possibility of a surprisingly common misunderstanding, editing is part of paid work if it is done as part of normal employment or as part of a work to a contract, whether or not a specific payment earmarked for editing Wikipedia is made.) JBW (talk) 17:03, 21 November 2021 (UTC)